Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-16
ALEXANDER'S ESCAPE.
THE RUSSIAN CAR DECLINES GER
TAIN NIilLfsTlc ATTENTIONS,

And Even Goes So Far as TO Change HIS
Road to Chureh-One Bomb Thrown
That Failed to orerate-The Warning
Given at the Last sIoment-Poiice Max
ing Wholesale Arrests
ST.. PETERSBURG, March l6-lt is semi
officially announced that on Sunday the po-
lice were informed that an attempt might be
made upon the life of the car on the ami
yersary of the death of his father, Alexander
H. Acting upon the suggestion thus put
forth the police exercised unusual vigilance
The suspicious actions Of several persons
standing near the Anitchkin palace attracted
the attention Of the police, who arrested the
suspected ones before they couli conceal the
fact that they held III their hands han l-gren-
AIDES and bomhs, which they were prepared
to throw at the car when he should pass on
his way to the cathedral There is still much
excitement in the city, aud the police and
military are extraordinarily alert. Arrests
of suspected persons are of almost hourly oc-
currence.
LONDON, March 16--The Standard pub
fishes dispatch from 81 Petersburg which
states that one of the six persons arrested in
connection with the pot to ASA ssinate the
car carried in his hand book from the
middle of which, between the covers, the
leaves had been cut 50 as TO form hollow
space This cavity contained bottle filled
with dynamite and handful of poisoned
bullets The other men arrested carried par
GELS and bags containing hand grenades and
bombs 1t is also stated that woman hav-
ing bomb concealed ia her muff was ar
rested near the palace.
The Daily News st. Petersburg CORE
spondent telegraphs that bomb was thrown
| under the carriage of the ear as he was re
| turning from the requiem mass at the ca
| thedral, but fortunately it failed to explode.
| Two of the men arrested for completely IN
| the conspiracy resided in the suburbs OF the
| city and the police upon visiting their apart
| ments found there large quantity of ex-
plosive material and revolutionary pam
phiets. Thus far NOR than POO arrests have
| been made.
The German police gave warning to their
Russian brethren some time aGp OF the exist
| ence of the plot, but the Russians vera un
| able to obtain any clue upon which to WORK
its destruction. The police are now visiting
and searching the houses O. III against whom
the highest suspicion of : niism exists Tn,
authorities observe most rigorous censor
ship over dispatches, both internal and inter
national, and correspondents represent tina
it is with the utmost difficulty that they ar
enabled to communicatn with their respectiv
journals.
The Times St Pe'er,bur. dispatch say
the route of the proposed Journey of the CA
to and from the cathedral on Sunday wa
crowded with people and the houses gail,
decsed with fsGs, streamcrs, etc. b
fore the police force WHICH was t
guard the route left the for tres, tie chief o
: police telegraphed to the pa;ac, tlat gray
| suspicious existed that the ".Gr's assassina
, tors. would be attempted and advised that
change be made ia tie raIte hi5 maiest
would take Acting upon this dispatch tn
1 officers of the household made the chang
and the imperial carriage was driven u tn
cathedral by way Of the NevI Quay, thu
: avoiding passage directly thorough tue city
, This circumstance I'D ioJbteIly saved tt
. cars life
A special council va, tcii on Sunll
, night which was pres.dei over 10y the Gran
e Duke Vladimir. TIL inaa who throw IL
bomb under the carriage whtla the car ";
returning from the cathedral, VAS arraignt
. before tie council, but u retGsri t. talk an
was taken back to the iprtrgSs, where
i with his companions in crime are now col
| fined